Harper Adams University

To develop an Autonomous control system for street cleansing functions to improve road and public safety whilst optimising efficiency.

Hands Free Farm is a collaborative industrial research project aiming to create the technologies required to operate a farm autonomously building on experience, criticism and learning from the Hands Free Hectare. This project will develop swarm robotic skills, smart machines and implements, providing a platform to evaluate technology development and econo...

Determining the correct date on which to harvest potatoes is one of the most critical decisions potato growers must make. If they lift their potatoes too early, they may be below the optimum size resulting in less than the maximum potential output being produced, if they lift them too late, they may be too large to meet buyer specifications significantly ...

To develop a novel product that will reduce the impact of drought stress on wheat delivering enhanced yield and increase the ability to farm on marginal land.

"Ruminants worldwide are affected by Johne's Disease (JD), or paratuberculosis, a fatal and highly infectious disease. JD severely impacts cattle welfare due to inflammation of their intestines, resulting in a profuse diarrhoea and emaciation. JD causes large economic losses due to decreased milk production estimated at over 4000 kg less milk produced in ...

Poultry meat birds are bred for high muscle gain but require very careful husbandry. Current poultry monitoring technologies operate at flock level and do not provide high resolution data collection and analytics required by modern efficient poultry producers to make significant performance gains. RoboChick proposes a multi-functional robotic system capab...

The aim of this project is to further develop innovative technologies for connected autonomous vehicles to accelerate adoption of driverless vehicles and allied technologies in the UK. This project will introduce innovative technologies to operate connected autonomous cars in a platoon formation from Stockport directly to the arrivals terminal at Manchest...

To utilise new and emerging agronomic technologies to improve efficiency and reduce waste in salad crop production and develop new markets through the design and demonstration of next generation production systems for leafy salad crops.

The Hands Free Hectare aims to produce the first crop in the world to be grown completely autonomously - from establishment to harvest, no humans will enter the field. The project will modify existing farm machinery models to utilise control systems developed from open-source data, providing a low-cost route to on-farm machine control.

There is widespread concern about levels of salt consumption amongst UK consumers. Reducing salt (NaCl) content is often achieved by adding potassium salt (KCl), but this is inherently bitter, cannot be added in large quantities and has it's own health risks. The Quorn manufacturing process generates a water based effluent (Centrate) containing compounds ...

Whereas most work in optimising energy systems has taken place in urban areas, FARMERS looks at the rural and agricultural environment which is often characterised by fragile electricity distribution networks, no gas grid and a reliance on oil based fuels for energy and heat but it is also ideal for medium scale renewable generation some of which is highl...